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ST Medical Monday: "What Should Hang on the Walls of a Hospital?" (Encore)
November 17, 2021 17:47 - 28 minutes - 28.2 MBThe London-based curator and writer Lou Stoppard joins us to discuss her latest New Yorker Magazine article: "What Should Hang on the Walls of a Hospital?"
At the Tulsa Committee on Foreign Relations: "Putin's War vs. the U.S.: A Product of the 'Intelligence State'?"
November 17, 2021 17:45 - 28 minutes - 27.5 MBJohn Sipher, a non-resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council and retired CIA officer, spoke recently at the TCFR on "Putin's War vs. the U.S.: A Product of the 'Intelligence State'?"
For the TSO's upcoming "Symphonic Poetry" concert, Sarah Hicks is the guest conductor
November 12, 2021 18:28 - 28 minutes - 28.7 MBA conversation with the acclaimed pop/classical conductor, Sarah Hicks, who will be the guest conductor at the TSO's "Symphonic Poetry" concert.
ST presents Museum Confidential: Beyond the "Bad Art Friend"
November 12, 2021 18:26 - 29 minutes - 22.1 MBStudioTulsa offers another installment in PRT's Museum Confidential podcast series, which looks at questions of — and trends within — art, curating, collecting, museum-going, creativity, and so forth.
"Volunteers: Growing Up in the Forever War"
November 12, 2021 18:22 - 28 minutes - 24.1 MBJerad W. Alexander -- who from 1998 to 2006 served as a U.S. Marine, deploying to the Mediterranean, East Africa, and Iraq -- talks about his new memoir.
"The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World"
November 12, 2021 18:19 - 28 minutes - 25.2 MBTim Marshall, a bestselling author and noted authority on foreign affairs and geopolitics, talks about his newest book, "The Power of Geography."
"Grow Wild: The Whole-Child, Whole-Family, Nature-Rich Guide to Moving More"
November 12, 2021 18:15 - 28 minutes - 26 MBBestselling author and biomechanist Katy Bowman discusses her new book, which aims to get kids (from infants to preteens) as well as their families moving more, and moving better, and doing so together (ideally while outside).
Notes on the safety precautions the TSO is taking as it prepares to offer its "Symphonic Poetry" concert
November 12, 2021 18:11 - 28 minutes - 26.5 MBWe chat with the executive director of the Tulsa Symphony about the safety precautions now in place in advance of the TSO's "Symphonic Poetry" concert.
The Jewish Federation of Tulsa will soon present an online Kristallnacht Remembrance event: "...And the World Was Silent"
November 12, 2021 18:09 - 28 minutes - 25.2 MBA chat with Dr. John K. Roth, who will speak at an upcoming, online-only event concerning Kristallnacht, "...And the World Was Silent: The Consequences of Being a Bystander."
"A Shot to Save the World: The Inside Story of the Life-or-Death Race for a COVID-19 Vaccine"
November 12, 2021 18:07 - 28 minutes - 24.8 MBWe chat with an award-winning Wall Street Journal writer, Gregory Zuckerman, whose new book thoroughly documents the race to find a COVID-19 vaccine.
"The Plant Hunter: A Scientist's Quest for Nature's Next Medicines"
November 12, 2021 18:02 - 28 minutes - 25.3 MBA conversation with one of the world's leading ethnobotanists, Dr. Cassandra Quave, who has just published an engaging, candid, and action-packed memoir.
TU's Presidential Lecture Series presents an online evening with Fran Lebowitz
November 12, 2021 17:52 - 28 minutes - 25.2 MBA conversation with the writer and commentator Fran Lebowitz in advance of her online appearance as part of TU's Presidential Lecture Series
"Another World: The Transcendental Painting Group" at Philbrook Museum of Art
November 12, 2021 17:46 - 28 minutes - 27 MBSusan Green, a curator at Philbrook, talks about an exhibit at the museum called "Another World: The Transcendental Painting Group"
From OK Policy, a new report proposing various tax and budget reforms: "A Better Path Forward"
November 12, 2021 17:30 - 28 minutes - 25.4 MB"A Better Path Forward," a new report from OK Policy, proposes a number of tax and budget reforms aimed at fairness, prosperity, improved health, and better education services
"The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth"
November 12, 2021 17:18 - 28 minutes - 23.8 MBKristin Henning, Blume Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center, examines the foundations of racist policing in America
"Woven Together" by Sedrick Huckaby at TU's Hogue Gallery
November 10, 2021 22:16 - 28 minutes - 27.7 MBWe feature a conversation with the noted visual artist Sedrick Huckaby, who is currently the Ruth Mayo Distinguished Visiting Artist here at TU.
"Supersized Lies: How Myths about Weight Loss Are Keeping Us Fat...."
October 25, 2021 17:44 - 28 minutesOur guest on ST Medical Monday is Dr. Robert J. Davis -- a/k/a The Healthy Skeptic -- whose writing has appeared on CNN, PBS, WebMD, and in The Wall Street Journal. He is also the author of several books on healthy eating and healthy living, and he's well-known for the ways in which he dissects the science/data/research behind popular health claims. His newest book, which he tells us about, is "Supersized Lies: How Myths about Weight Loss Are Keeping Us Fat -- and the Truth About What Really ...
Chamber Music Tulsa welcomes the magnificent Brentano Quartet
October 22, 2021 17:35 - 29 minutesOur guest on StudioTulsa is Bruce Sorrell, who joined Chamber Music Tulsa as its executive director in early 2012. He tells us about the exciting performances that CMT will present this weekend (on Friday the 22nd, Saturday the 23rd, and Sunday the 24th) by the Brentano Quartet. Long regarded as one of the nation's leading string quartets and now based at the Yale School of Music, the Brentano is celebrating its 30th season as a collective. For a complete rundown of these performances as well...
"Russia, Ukraine, and a Biden Doctrine" at the TCFR
October 21, 2021 16:49 - 28 minutesOur guest is Ambassador William B. Taylor, who is Vice President of Strategic Stability and Security at the U.S. Institute of Peace. From June 2019 to January 2020, he served as chargé d’affaires and acting ambassador at the U.S. embassy in Kyiv. He also served as the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine from 2006 to 2009. A longtime expert on, and participant in, the U.S. government's foreign service, Ambassador Taylor recently gave an address at the Tulsa Committee on Foreign Relations (TCFR) titled ...
Arab Film Fest Tulsa: Screening soon at the Circle
October 20, 2021 17:22 - 29 minutesOn this edition of ST, we learn about Arab Film Fest Tulsa, which opens tomorrow (10/21) at Circle Cinema here in Tulsa and runs through Sunday (10/24). A joint presentation of Tulsa Artist Fellowship, Circle Cinema, and Mizna, an Arab American arts/cultural organization based in Minnesota, this festival will offer several feature-length movies (as well as a few shorts) of Southwest Asian or North African (as in, "SWANA") origin. The films will explore various aspects of art, identity, commun...
"Period. End of Sentence.: A New Chapter in the Fight for Menstrual Justice" (Encore)
October 19, 2021 17:24 - 28 minutes(Note: This interview first aired back in June.) When the documentary film "Period. End of Sentence." won an Oscar in 2019, the film's co-producer, Melissa Berton, said in her acceptance speech: "A period should end a sentence, not a girl's education." Now comes a book that follows-up on that goundbreaking movie, a far-reaching work that outlines the challenges confronting those who menstruate worldwide and the solutions being offered by a new generation of body-positive activists and innovat...
COVID in Oklahoma: An update on StudioTulsa Medical Monday
October 18, 2021 22:45 - 28 minutesOn this edition of ST Medical Monday, we look at the status quo of COVID in the Sooner State. How many people have been vaxxed in Oklahoma statewide...and how does our state compare to others in this regard? How many Delta Variant cases are being reported now by our state's hospitals? And is the number going up or down? Among those who, indeed, have been vaxxed, who should be getting a booster shot? And who shouldn't? And what about the flu shot -- who should be getting that? And is it possib...
"American Indian Expressions" -- An upcoming Signature Symphony chamber music concert
October 15, 2021 17:26 - 29 minutesOur guest is the acclaimed Chickasaw classical composer, Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate. He's known for blending Chickasaw and other Native American elements with European musical instruments to create compositions that've been performed by the likes of the National Symphony Orchestra, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony, and others. Tate will be the focus of the next Signature Symphony chamber music concert, happening in-person on Saturday the 16th at the VanTrease PACE ...
What's being done throughout Tulsa to welcome, assist, and befriend our incoming Afghan neighbors
October 14, 2021 17:07 - 29 minutesOklahoma, as you might've heard, is welcoming more Afghan refugees than any state in the US other than California and Texas. How many of these refugees will be settling in the Tulsa area in the coming weeks and months? And what's being done to welcome these new neighbors of ours? What is being done to help them find homes or jobs, to help them enroll in school or locate health care, to show them how to obtain a driver's license or speak English? How are various groups and individuals througho...
ST presents Museum Confidential: A conversation with John Lurie
October 13, 2021 17:22 - 29 minutesOn this edition of ST, we offer an another installment in the Museum Confidential podcast series, which is a co-production of Philbrook Museum of Art and Public Radio Tulsa. This time out, MC connects with the legendary musician, painter, actor, and director, John Lurie, who might be best known as a co-founder of the Lounge Lizards, the jazz/avant/indie band that thrived on the 1980s "downtown scene" in NYC. He's also acted in many films, including "Stranger than Paradise" and "Down by Law," ...
"Plagues upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History"
October 12, 2021 16:59 - 28 minutesOur guest is Kyle Harper, a professor of classics and letters at the University of Oklahoma, whose books include "The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire" and "From Shame to Sin: The Christian Transformation of Sexual Morality in Late Antiquity." He joins us to discuss his hefty and fascinating new book, "Plagues upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History." It offers a meticulously detailed "germ's-eye view" of human life on this planet -- from the origins of...
"We're Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation"
October 11, 2021 16:30 - 28 minutesOur guest on ST Medical Monday is Eric Garcia, a political journalist based in Washington, DC, who's worked for or written for National Journal, Marketwatch, Roll Call, The New Republic, The Daily Beast, and other publications. He joins us to discuss his remarkable new book, "We're Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation." As Garcia, who is himself on the spectrum, writes in these pages: "This book is a message from autistic people to their parents, friends, teachers, coworkers, and doct...
At the next Tulsa Symphony concert, the noted guest conductor Bramwell Tovey will hold the baton
October 08, 2021 16:46 - 28 minutesTomorrow night, Saturday the 9th, the Tulsa Symphony Orchestra will begin its new season with a concert beginning at 8pm in the Tulsa PAC. It'll be the first time the TSO has performed in this space with an audience since the pandemic began (and masks as well as proof of COVID-19 vaccination -- or else proof of a negative COVID-19 test result -- will be required for entry). The evening will feature Shostakovich's Festive Overture, Coleridge-Taylor's Ballade, Liszt's Les Preludes, and Beethove...
"Believing: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence"
October 07, 2021 16:28 - 28 minutesOur guest is Anita Hill, the University Professor of Social Policy, Law, and Women's and Gender Studies at Brandeis University. Following her historic testimony at the 1991 Senate confirmation hearings for U.S. Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas, Hill became a leading national figure in the fight for women's rights and against gender-based violence. She joins us to talk about her new book, "Believing." As was noted of this work in a starred review in Library Journal: "Hill's new book defie...
A chat with Mark Wood, an electric violinist and former member of the Trans-Siberian Orchestra
October 06, 2021 16:32 - 29 minutesOn this edition of ST, we meet the rock/classical/crossover electric violinist, Mark Wood, who will perform with the Bartlesville Symphony Orchestra on Saturday the 9th, beginning at 7:30pm. (This show happens at the Bartlesville Community Center; for tickets or more information, please go here.) An original member of the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Wood is also a Juilliard-trained violinist who's widely known for his music-education programs as well as his string-instrument-making company. He'...
StudioTulsa presents Museum Confidential: A chat with Cey Adams, the noted hip-hop graphic artist
October 05, 2021 17:03 - 28 minutesOn this edition of ST, we present a recently-posted episode of the Museum Confidential podcast, which is a co-production of Public Radio Tulsa and Philbrook Museum of Art. This episode looks at the "Smithsonian Anthology of Hip-Hop and Rap," a new box set that includes 9 CDs as well as a hefty 300–page book with original design by Cey Adams. Adams is a well-known NYC graphic artist and the founding creative director of Def Jam Recordings. He's long been at the epicenter of hip-hop culture.
"Uncontrolled Spread: Why COVID-19 Crushed Us and How We Can Defeat the Next Pandemic"
October 04, 2021 17:16 - 28 minutesOur guest on ST Medical Monday is the physician, regular CNBC contributor, and former FDA Commissioner, Scott Gottlieb. His new book explains how the coronavirus and its variants were able to effectively demolish America's pandemic protocols and preparations. "Uncontrolled Spread" also outlines the steps that Gottlieb says must be taken in order to safeguard against the next outbreak. As was noted of this work by Kirkus Reviews: "The author...urges that preparation for pandemics be considered...
Oklahomans for Equality to offer "An Evening with John Paul Brammer"
October 01, 2021 16:40 - 28 minutesOur guest is the Oklahoma-born, New York-based author and artist, John Paul Brammer. His new memoir, "¡Hola Papi!," is just being published. The book is an autobiograhical extension of his popular LGBTQIA advice column of the same title, which began in 2017. On Monday the 4th, Oklahomans for Equality will present "An Evening with John Paul Brammer" at the Dennis R. Neill Equality Center in downtown Tulsa, beginning at 7pm. This free event is being offered as part of OKEQ's annual celebration ...
"Regeneration: Ending the Climate Crisis in One Generation"
September 30, 2021 16:42 - 28 minutesOur guest is one of the environmental movement's leading voices, and a pioneering architect of corporate reform with respect to ecological practices and philosophies. Paul Hawken is an entrepreneur, author, and activist who has dedicated his life to environmental sustainability and changing the relationship between business and the environment. His new book, which he tells us about, is "Regeneration: Ending the Climate Crisis in One Generation." It's a work that, per the San Francisco Chronic...
"Cloud Cuckoo Land: A Novel"
September 29, 2021 17:33 - 29 minutesOur guest is Anthony Doerr, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning "All the Light We Cannot See," which first appeared in 2014, and which might be one of the most cherished and highest-selling novels of recent times. He joins us to discuss "Cloud Cuckoo Land," his newest novel. Set in Constantinople in the 15th century, in a small town in today's Idaho, and on a spaceship decades from now -- and with all three of these narratives based upon the stories contained within a long-lost book from anc...
"Travels with George: In Search of Washington and His Legacy"
September 28, 2021 15:11 - 28 minutesOn this edition of ST, we speak once again with the historian and bestselling author Nathaniel Philbrick, whose newest book is a fisrt-person hyrid of American history, travel writing, and personal reflection. The book is "Travels with George: In Search of Washington and His Legacy." It retraces four different trips that the newly-elected President Washington took throughout the ex-colonies comprising this country, speaking-engagement tours that our first Chief Exectuive made at a time when t...
Coming Soon, Several Notable Classical Music Performances at Saint John's Episcopal Church
September 21, 2021 17:12 - 29 minutes - 1.73 KBOur guest is Joseph Arndt, who's been the music director at Saint John's Episcopal Church here in Tulsa since 2015. Arndt received his M.M. from The Juilliard School and his B.M. from Westminster Choir College in organ performance. Shortly after arriving in Tulsa, he founded the popular Music at Midday series at Saint John's, which he tells us about. The 7th season of Music at Midday gets underway tomorrow (Wednesday the 22nd, at noon) with a performance by Barron Ryan, the Tulsa-based classi...
"Lifelines: A Doctor's Journey in the Fight for Public Health"
September 20, 2021 17:12 - 29 minutes - 1.73 KBOur guest is the noted medical expert, Dr. Leana Wen, a visiting professor at George Washington University's School of Public Health and a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. She's also a contributing columnist for The Washington Post and a CNN medical analyst, and she was named one of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People. She joins us to discuss her new memoir, "Lifelines," which traces her engaging journey from being a struggling young Chinese immigrant in Los An...
ST Presents Episode 1 of a New Season of Museum Confidential: "The Outsiders?"
September 17, 2021 16:25 - 28 minutes - 1.7 KBOn this installment of StudioTulsa, we are pleased to share Episode 1 of Season 6 of the Museum Confidential podcast, which is a co-production of Philbrook Museum of Art and Public Radio Tulsa. (Season 6 just launched earlier this month.) This episode begins with a few basic yet far-reaching questions. What is an "outsider artist"? And do we even call them that anymore? In recent years, the term has shifted to "self-taught artist." Sounds different, but does it mean the same thing? And what a...
"Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America"
September 16, 2021 18:01 - 28 minutes - 1.7 KBWe've heard often about "essential workers" since the pandemic got underway -- those indispensable individuals who are, alas, in many cases under-appreciated, under-paid, or both. But such vital workers are not, of course, just those working in the medical, science, health, or rescue fields, and these workers were certainly an important part of American society **before** the pandemic ever hit. Our guest is the New York-based author and journalist Eyal Press. His new book is "Dirty Work: Esse...
"Survival of the City: Living and Thriving in an Age of Isolation"
September 15, 2021 17:05 - 28 minutes - 1.7 KBThe pandemic, of course, has clearly changed -- and is actually still changing -- how we think about work, play, relationships, entertainment, education, social interaction, and much more. It's also making many of us wonder about city life, i.e., what the pros and cons of living in an urban setting really are in this age of Covid. Are people still as drawn to cities as they used to be? And what does the future of the city look like? Our guest is David Cutler, the Otto Eckstein Professor of Ap...
Connie Cronley Offers "A Life on Fire: Oklahoma's Kate Barnard"
September 14, 2021 17:12 - 28 minutes - 1.7 KBOn this edition of ST, we welcome writer Connie Cronley back to our program. She's one of our regular commentators; her previous books include "Sometimes a Wheel Falls Off," "Light and Variable," "Poke a Stick at It," and "Mr. Ambassador: Warrior for Peace." Cronley joins us to discuss her latest book, "A Life on Fire," which is a fascinating new biography of Kate Barnard (1875-1930). Little-known today but very active and influential in her early-20th-century prime, Barnard was a tireless po...
"The Hidden History of American Healthcare"
September 13, 2021 17:31 - 28 minutes - 1.7 KBOur guest on this edition of ST Medical Monday is the progressive radio host, multimedia personality, and bestselling author Thom Hartmann. He tells us about his newest book, "The Hidden History of American Healthcare: Why Sickness Bankrupts You and Makes Others Insanely Rich." It's an engaging and highly readable narrative looking at how and why efforts to enact truly affordable universal healthcare in the U.S. have been repeatedly thwarted...and what might be done in order to finally realiz...
"Creations in Studio K" from Tulsa Ballet
September 10, 2021 16:40 - 28 minutes - 1.7 KBOur guest is Marcello Angelini, the artistic director of Tulsa Ballet. The company will present its annual "Creations in Studio K" program -- which is devoted, as ever, to new works only -- through September 19th; the Studio K space is located at 1212 East 45th Place in Tulsa. This year's rundown includes world premieres from both Yury Yanowsky and Katarzyna Kozielska, as Angelini tells us. Also on the bill is a performance from TBII, which is the second company of Tulsa Ballet. They're offer...
"Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy"
September 09, 2021 16:45 - 28 minutes - 1.7 KBOur guest is Adam Tooze, a professor of history at Columbia University and the author of "Crashed," which was a New York Times Notable Book of 2018 and one of The Economist's Books of the Year. His timely new book, which he tells us about, mixes finance, politics, business, economics, medicine, and recent world history in order to trace what went wrong -- and why -- during the turning-point year that was 2020. This new book is "Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy." As was noted by R...
"The Great Mistake: A Novel" (Encore)
September 08, 2021 15:58 - 28 minutes - 1.7 KB(Note: This interview originally aired back in June.) Our guest is the novelist Jonathan Lee, whose latest book is a vivid, page-turning work of historical fiction titled "The Great Mistake." It's a novel set in 19th-century New York City that digs into the life and times of -- and the mysterious murder of -- a man named Andrew Haswell Green. Not well-remembered today but very famous in his time, Green (who was called "The Father of Greater New York") was a lawyer and city planner whose visio...
"Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth" (Encore)
September 07, 2021 17:05 - 28 minutes - 1.7 KB(Note: This conversation originally aired earlier this year.) History is one thing; mythology is another. And at times, of course, these two can overlap, or blur, or get confused. Such is the case with the Alamo, as our guest argues. Longtime journalist Chris Tomlinson is a columnist for The Houston Chronicle and The San Antonio Express-News, and he's one of the authors of a book titled "Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth." As was noted of this work in Publishers Weekly: ...
"We Are All Perfectly Fine: A Memoir of Love, Medicine, and Healing"
September 07, 2021 16:56 - 28 minutes - 1.7 KBOur guest is Dr. Jillian Horton, a medical educator, writer, musician, and podcaster based in Canada. As an award-winning teacher of mindfulness, she works with doctors at all stages of their careers who are dealing with guilt, grief, burnout, frustration, and/or other professional pressures. Dr. Horton joins us to reflect on her own story -- she earned a master's in English before starting her study of medicine -- as she describes her new autobiography, "We Are All Perfectly Fine: A Memoir o...
A Chat with Dr. Sanjeev Arora, Recipient of TU's 2021 Brock Prize
September 03, 2021 17:04 - 28 minutes - 1.7 KBToday we hear from a medical professional whose work is having a profound impact on the wider realms of continuing and professional education. Our guest is the newest Brock Prize in Education Innovation Laureate, Dr. Sanjeev Arora. He's the founder of Project ECHO, an instructional and tele-mentoring model that provides professional development to under-served and/or remote areas. It's a fast-growing program that's making educational change occur at the local, national, and global levels. Dr....
Words and Music and Objects by Lonnie Holley: A Visual Artist and "Experimental Blues" Musician
September 02, 2021 18:09 - 29 minutes - 1.73 KBOur guest is the acclaimed African-American artist Lonnie Holley, born in Alabama in 1950, who has three pieces now on view at Philbrook in that museum's "From the Limitations of Now" exhibit, which closes on September 5th. Known for his mixed-media and found-and-discarded-object art pieces, Holley is also an "experimental blues" musician who's made several albums. He will perform with his band tomorrow night (Friday the 3rd) at Philbrook's garden space, beginning at 7pm.